Interior Sightings?
 

I just purchased my car a month ago, and I already dislike the plastic already. I was wondering if anyone has seen any good deals on carbon fiber / leather interior? Best ones I found

http://www.redlinegoods.com/BRZshiftboot.php

for nearly 350$

Going to trick it out inside and out to engine (warranty period you know, don't want to void it just yet).

CF = tacky. Get it done tastefully, the more it looks factory the better.

There are some good choices in tge vendor area of the forum.

Holy crap, the quality of their work looks AWFUL. :barf: Those "leather" pieces could've been sewn together better by my 8 year old niece. And that giant BRZ emblem is tacky as hell. JPM stuff is pricier but looks wayyyyy better. And yeah, carbon fiber looks tacky.

@ Turbo95eg6, I agree CF does look tacky if you cover the whole interior. But due to me having intentions of having the whole outside carbon fiber, mild enhancements (steering wheel plastic to CF) heated buttons and ring manual stick cover, and door handles would be the only aesthetics to it. Everything else will be leather and match directly to manufacturer only including the ceiling. All will have outline stitching with bright red. Have a light smoked tint with ceramic to keep everything envy-able.

Thanks G-Man, I looked at them and saw that they have the sun visor and B Pillars which looks very nice.

Dry Carbon could be ok, not resin covered. Looks tacky. And for the love of god, no fake CF.

JPM for the win. Definitely. That, or get your interior pieces hydro(hydra?)dipped. Looks fantastic. Several AZ 86ers have had it done on their interior and engine bay pieces.

Good idea SirBrass I contacted a guy to get the AC controls dipped and stick shift frame. Let's see how the pricing goes for a est. from 972-775-3224 1040 Dividend Rd. Midlothian, TX 76065. I agree Turbo95eg6, if it looks carbon, it is strongly preferred to be carbon. They have some metal finishes which would look equally as nice.

"We can do these three parts at $125.00" Not bad. Not sure if they can darken the finish based on the texture.

I got the radio and passenger trim in dry carbon from a vendor here for $270. @F-T

I dont see how CF is tacky. Its a taste. Personally the only thing I would CF is the dash panel, i wouldn't call that "tacky".

They just make the wrap to what you want, those are customer installed images. They really need to get better pics of their stuff installed for these cars though, cause that looks pretty bad I'll agree.


Redline does great stuff for the Miata, don't imagine their other products would be worse...

Well, I will get those and will get it molded to the dash. I have a upholstery shop here that will do it, but did not mention how much. And due to my clumsiness I will probably get that all chopped up to death. Plus several custom shops available for me to look into. I'll keep you all updated once I have the finances, but won't be done until mid Feb.

Already beaten to the punch linking JPM.
They're definitely on my "Future mod list". 1 sight, and I was hooked.
Plus, they look super classy (at least imo).


Damn mod bug, stop hitting me! I don't even have a twin yet!

might not want to have your # and address posted publicly on the forums there, chief ;)

+1 for JPM Coachworks

http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showthread.php?t=34777

Its not my number, its the number to the business I contacted. So if I get positive results or negative that is a number you can contact/avoid.

The pattern begs attention to itself. It's like wearing neon yellow shoes. Unless you REALLY want to draw attention to your feet and away from everything else you're wearing, why do it? Same goes for cars and other aspects of design.

Could always have a shop paint them with OEM-matched paint. Looks good.

@ BoostinIX actually I had professional paint, and painted my whole interior on my previous car, Dodge Avenger R/T. It looked really good. The tan was converted to a mix of Black, Blue, and Red in very tasteful combination. But as people scratched the paint the tan with their computers or feet. It showed and quickly lost its value.

I even have spoken to multiple car custom places, they refuse to paint someones interior as they have had a ton of complications based on the warranty.

It almost is not worth it unless there is a coating I can apply besides clear coat that I am not aware of to make it durable. If there is I would love to know as that would typically be cheaper and naturally look really nice.

You guys think this is tacky??

It's not as bad as it could be, but yeah. It draws your attention to the dash and screams LOOK AT ME. It doesn't match the rest of the interior (and if I did, it would be extremely hard to look at the interior. I've seen car interiors decked out in carbon fiber and it looked completely tasteless, as if handed over to a 13 year old boy to design). The only way I can think of to tastefully pull off carbon fiber in a decorative way is in very small amounts on trim pieces that don't have such a large surface area, and even then, there are other options that would still look way better.

Of course design is a subjective matter and you may disagree, but it's hard to disagree that it is at least distracting.

I like the dry carbon. It's not shiny at all. This one isn't the one I ordered but it's an example.
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a1...aYREXP-1-1.jpg

hydrodipping would probably be the way to go, then, since it's not paint, per se, and thus it's stronger.

This is my tacky cf interior. Before you go off on the not aligned gauge pod piece. I haven't finished securing that piece yet because i am getting a S/C installed in a month and i need access to the back of the panel to install my boost gauge.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...018_131236.jpg

I'm really not a fan of carbon fiber on the interior, but at least it's real carbon fiber and not 3M stick-on "carbon fiber"...

Now, if someone showed me a BRZ with a full stitched-leather dash, my ears would probably prick up! Basically if our cars looked like a 997 GT3 inside that would be perfect IMHO. Leather here, a dab of alcantara there... mmmmm.

http://www.exoticsandluxury.com/wp-c...or-picture.jpg

Such an awesome interior. I really want one of those cars... one day!

not at all classy all the way !!:party0030:

Where did you buy ???

I saw an interior once....

Fake CF is tacky as f*. CF is supposed to serve a function which is strength and lightweight. But then our cars already have fake side vents so who cares lol!

The quality of their work is terrible. It all fits like crap. I just helped a friend put shift/ebrake boots on his sti. It looks no-so-best. Go with jpmcoachworks.

As a stand alone piece, it looks good, but it doesn't fit in with rest of the interior. Same goes with the shift knob.

Apples to oranges, JPM's stuff is already on the part and ready to install, redline's is just the cloth and you have to install it on the existing pieces.


If you don't have experience installing such items, of course they're going to look like crap...

I like this look better than the other setup posted in this thread

GOOD GOD that is SEXY! I gotta get that done to my car now

I disagree. The shiftboots they sell fit funny.

I personally hate the CF look. Personal tastes, I guess, but I just don't understand the appeal.

I don't mind the stock look of the car, but I would really like to replace the plastic pieces with teak. It would be heavier, but I think it would add a bit of throwback class to the interior. The old sports cars had a little more warmth in the interior that many of the modern cars lack.

I hope the BRZ gets the "dry carbon" look in the pics on the following thread. The vast expanse of scratchable silver is a drawback for me.
http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showthread.php?t=62809

My Protege5 came with two thin strips of fake CF, and it looks very nice.

Having messed with their stuff before, it's a hassle, but the fabric itself is patterned directly off the OEM stuff. If it doesn't fit right, it's all on the installer (in this case it was me and I gave up and bought one that was already installed on the support pieces for the boot).